Was Ethel Rosenberg executed for the wrong crime? By early 1940, after almost a decade of planning and implementing stricter and more aggressive anti-Semitic laws, the "Final Solution," Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jewish people, is set in place. Ethel Rosenberg, along with other members of the Young Communist League, attempts to draw isolationist America into the European war to stop the genocide. Just prior to World War II, a plan is set in place to infiltrate the highest offices of the War Department. The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy begins in the early 1920s and continues through the 1990s. It is full of intrigue with numerous plot twists including blackmail and murder. The novel is a harrowing tale of female resistance and camaraderie. Reviewed by Kimberlee J Benart for Readers' Favorite If you like historical fiction with a few twists, turns, and surprises along the way, The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy by J.G. Schwartz is for you. The story alternates between two timelines: Rebecca and her mother Bernice in 1992, and a younger Bernice in the years 1939 through the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Rebecca, a teacher, has taken leave to help care for her dying mother, a widow and retired teacher who is in home hospice care. A confidential package arrives for Rebecca holding evidence of a shocking secret about her mother. Rebecca knew that her mother was related to Ethel Rosenberg who, along with her husband Julius, was executed as a spy for Russia. However, that won't hold a candle to what Bernice will unfold to her daughter after Rebecca confronts her about the package, or what Rebecca will find in her mother's lockbox. In The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy, Schwartz gives us a dramatic and suspenseful fictional account about the impetus behind the United States entering World War II. Bernice's character is drawn with emotional complexity. She's a woman torn who acts heroically, on the one hand, and on the other, tragically, unconscionably, and duplicitously. Depending heavily on dialog, the action moves a little slowly in the beginning but then crescendos in surprising twists and turns as Rebecca must decide what to do with what she's been given. She will prove to be her mother's daughter. Blending historical figures and events with fictional protagonists and plot, Schwartz creates a surprising and entertaining story which incorporates treason, deception, bribery, and murder before it's through. Joyce G. Schwartz, M.D., is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin where she received a Master of Arts degree with high honors. She then attended The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio where she obtained her Medial Degree. Dr. Schwartz was a tenured professor at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) then began working for Quest Diagnostics, Inc. where she served as Vice-President and Chief Laboratory Officer as well as Interim Vice President for Science and Innovation. She is currently working as a pathologist in San Antonio, Texas.Dr. Schwartz has received many awards during her career, including the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation Award, the Medical School Alumnus Award from UTHSCSA, and the Alpha Omega Alpha Award (Medical Honor Society). She was elected to the San Antonio Women's Hall of Fame and was a recipient of the Presidential Teaching Award from UTHSCSA.When Dr. Schwartz is not practicing pathology, she is writing novels-and they are award winning.Dr. Schwartz published The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy in 2019. The novel won the National INDIE Award for Military Fiction (2020) and First Place in the Chanticleer International Book Awards (GOETHE Book Award for post 1750's Historical Fiction).She published the novel, Inventing Madness, in 2015. It was an Eric Hoffer Finalist in 2020. The book also received Honorable Mention in the Red City Review Mystery Thriller Category (2015). Inventing Madness was Shortlisted in both the Silverwood Kobo-Berfort's Open Day Writing Competition (2015) and in the CLUE Novel Writing Contest (2015).Dr. Schwartz's most recent novel (2021), The Curious Spell of Madam Genova, is a heartwarming tale of magic and mystery involving movie stars, politicians and gangsters. Their lives become intertwined in a fascinating story of twentieth-century America.